Friday, December 8, 1922

Overcast, cool & slushy. 2 or 3 inches of snow in night. Arose 7:30 A.M. Breakfast. Shaved, washed etc. Studied. Classes 9:30-11:30 A.M. Dinner. Worked at Ginter Co. Band Box Luncheonette, 32 Tremont street 12 M. to 2 P.M. Down street with H.H. Xmas shopping. Supper. Studied. To see Jackie Coogan in "Oliver Twist," with Ernest F. Steinkraus. To bed 11:45 P.M.

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I'm not sure whether the Band Box Luncheonette was a place different from Ginter's restaurant, but here is what 32 Tremont looks like these days (now the home of CitiDental):

As for the movie, Oliver Twist, starring Jackie Coogan and Lon Chaney. The movie is based on the book of the same name by Charles Dickens. The version Stanford and Ernest watched was the latest of a number of productions prior to 1922. Here is some information about the film from Turner Classic Movies:

The busiest year for Oliver Twist movies was 1922, when versions from both Germany and Hollywood reached the screen. The star of the American edition was Jackie Coogan, eight years old and already a seasoned performer with eight pictures under his belt (including The Kid [1921], the Charles Chaplin dramedy that made him a star) plus his own company, Jackie Coogan Productions, to produce some of his films. Oliver Twist was the company's third venture - released by First National Pictures, directed by the hugely prolific Frank Lloyd, and featuring Lon Chaney, the master of makeup and menace, as Fagin, one of Dickens's most memorable villains. At a brisk 74 minutes, it leaves out countless details of Dickens's novel; but it makes up in colorful acting and creative cinematic touches what it lacks in Dickensian length.

Now that I have a full name for Mr. Steinkraus, I can see that he is probably a student at BUST with Stanford, and is probably the Ernest Frank Steinkraus who was born in Germany in 1887. He was a naturalized citizen by the time he registered for the draft in 1919, and was living in Cleveland as a student. By 1920 he was still in Cleveland, living with his father and presumably still going to school. By 1930 he was living in Buffalo with his wife, Florence, his daughter, Dorothy, and his widowed father, Herman. His occupation was clergyman for the Methodist Church. He continues to work in that profession, moving by 1934 to Bridgeport, Connecticut where he was pastor of the German Methodist Episcopal Church, founded in 1881. In 1952 it was merged with the Summerfield United Methodist Church, one of the two Methodist Churches left in Bridgeport. By 1940, Rev. Steinkraus had two more children; he died in Woodbury, CT at age 77 in 1965.